Levente Tamas received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania and he took part in several postdoctoral programs dealing with 3D perception and robotics, the most recent one spent at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. He is currently with the Department of Automation, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His research focuses on 3D perception and planning for autonomous mobile robots, and has resulted in several highly ranked conference papers, journal articles, and book chapters in this field.